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Is mobile killing the LAN?

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 05:11:00 -0700

I was talking with an industry CEO the other day and he offered an intriguing thought. He said that the LAN is dead — along with its associated routers and hubs and other network hardware — and that mobile has killed it. But the LAN isn’t dead, I resisted, noting that there are LANs within just about every corporate campus in the country.

And yet his argument can’t be dismissed. All of the data and security assumptions that existed when LANs came into being have gone away, courtesy of cloud and mobile. Still, I insisted, that’s an argument for why LANs should be dead, not that they are.

Let’s explore this a bit more. The CEO I was chatting with is Steven Sprague, from a cybersecurity vendor called Rivetz.

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Hack2Win – Code Blue 3rd Edition

Credit to Author: SSD / Maor Schwartz| Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 06:26:26 +0000

Hi everyone, We are excited to announce our 3rd Hack2Win Code Blue competition! This year we have changed the format, raised the difficulty level and increased the prizes. The goal of the event is to find who can gain the highest privileges on any of the target software and hardware. Prizes for this contest will … Continue reading Hack2Win – Code Blue 3rd Edition

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